[FairfieldLife] Re: Permit required for reincarnation

2007-08-03 Thread TurquoiseB
Falling bridges be damned. This has my vote as News Item Of The Week. Nice find, Vaj. But now I'm worried. If I don't apply for a permit from the Chinese guvmint, am I outa here after I croak? Bummer. Can I get out of the Bodhisattva Vow thang on a technicality? :-) --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Permit required for reincarnation

2007-08-03 Thread Rory Goff
Here, let me control that for you! *lol* Classic, Vaj, thanks! :-) *L*L*L* --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: China tells Tibet's living Buddhas to apply for reincarnation http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070803/tts-china-tibet-religion-

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Permit required for reincarnation

2007-08-03 Thread Vaj
On Aug 3, 2007, at 1:31 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: Falling bridges be damned. This has my vote as News Item Of The Week. Nice find, Vaj. But now I'm worried. If I don't apply for a permit from the Chinese guvmint, am I outa here after I croak? Bummer. Can I get out of the Bodhisattva Vow thang on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Permit required for reincarnation

2007-08-03 Thread Richard J. Williams
TurquoiseB wrote: Falling bridges be damned. Reincarnation be damned. The historical Buddha didn't teach reincarnation. In order to reincarnate, there must be an individual soul-monad to reincarnate. Get some smarts and try reading a little Buddhist history. The Buddha taught Causation - one

[FairfieldLife] Re: Permit required for reincarnation

2007-08-03 Thread tanhlnx
--Right. Some of the components of what made a body/mind in an incarnation of those components, reasserts themselves along with unfinished karma in a future embodiment. Along with those impulses is a faint memory stored in some subtle dimension. The persona next embodied having those living